FREE Insect Week topical pack for schools!
Insect Week takes place at the end of June each year and this year is celebrated between 22nd and 28th June. Run by the Royal Entomological Society, it encourages everyone to ‘Stand Tall for the Small’ by protecting the insect life around us.
Learning about insects supports both the Development Matters EYFS curriculum and the National Curriculum’s Science learning objectives, making Insect Week a great opportunity for cross-curricular learning.
To help you explore insects with your pupils, we’ve created a free topical pack full of printable classroom activities. It includes:
• A fact sheet about Insect Week and insects themselves
• A worksheet to help your pupils sort out insects from other creepy crawlies
• A worksheet focusing on the parts of an insect
• A variety of colouring-in sheets
• Worksheets to help your pupils design and describe their own imaginary insect
• A butterfly survey sheet
• An insect-based acrostic poem template
Ready to get started?
Download your free Insect Week topical pack below:
The activities inlcuded in the topical pack are ideal for whole-class teaching, independent learning, science lessons or continuous provision enhancements.
Enjoyed the pack?
Busy Things includes hundreds of interactive activities designed to support learning across the primary curriculum, including science topics like insects and minibeasts.
To help you celebrate Insect Week, we’ve made a selection of insect-themed activities free to play below, including ‘Parts of an insect’ and ‘Insect or not?’. If you’d like to explore even more activities, you can also try Busy Things free for 28 days.
Did you know?
Busy Things can be used on tablets as well as desktop computers, laptops and interactive whiteboards? It’s ideal for independent learning, as well as being great when you’re teaching at the front of the class. The children will love taking their turn to come up to the board to answer their question!
5 creepy crawly-based activities for primary schools
Identifying minibeasts
First up is ‘Minibeast identification’, a fun activity that helps children spot the differences between insects and other creepy crawlies while developing observation and classification skills.
Parts of an insect
So what makes a minibeast an insect?
Insects have six legs and either one or two pairs of wings. This activity helps children identify the different parts of an insect while learning about a common species, be that a butterfly, grasshopper, ant, dragonfly or beetle!
Please note: There is a more advanced version of this activity for Year 2 and above.
Insect or not?
Once pupils understand what makes an insect an insect, challenge them to classify different minibeasts correctly.
Make or create your own
Studying insects doesn’t have to focus entirely on the science. These activities also encourage creativity, descriptive writing and imaginative thinking.
Feeling arty? They can build their own creature in ‘Make a minibeast’.
Looking for a literacy link? ‘Create a minibeast’ lets children design and describe their own imaginary insect.?
Want to see more activities?
We hope this selection of activities, along with the free topical pack, helps your pupils discover just how fascinating insects can be during Insect Week and beyond.
If you’d like access to even more curriculum-linked activities for EYFS and primary classrooms, we’d be delighted to offer you a 28-day free trial of Busy Things. Simply click here and to start exploring!
This blog was updated in May 2026.
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thank you for your ideas
You’re welcome!